1, different raw materials

Tapioca flour, is made from starch obtained from the tubers of a tropical rainforest plant.

Sweet potato flour, which is ground from groundnuts.

2, different forms

Tapioca flour after cooking will become transparent form, very flexible.

Sweet potato flour after steaming is gray in color and has a strong viscosity.

3, the use of different

Tapioca is mainly used to do food additives, but also can be made into taro balls and other desserts.

Sweet potato flour is mainly used to make vermicelli, although some are also used to make feed.

Extended information

Nutritional value

Sweet potatoes contain a variety of nutrients that the human body needs. Every 500 grams of sweet potato can produce about 635 kcal of calories, containing 11.5 grams of protein, 14.5 grams of sugar, 1 gram of fat, 100 milligrams of phosphorus, 90 milligrams of calcium, 2 grams of iron, 0.5 milligrams of carotene.

Also contains vitamin B1, B2, C and niacin, linoleic acid. The content of vitamin B1 and B2 is 6 times higher than rice and 3 times. Especially sweet potato is rich in lysine, and rice, flour precisely lack of lysine.

Sweet potato is also an ideal food for weight loss, it contains very low calories, much lower than the average rice, so you do not have to worry about getting fat after eating.

Sweet potato also contains a kind of estrogen-like substances, on the protection of human skin, delay aging has a certain role. Therefore, many women abroad take sweet potato as a beauty food.

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